Job Vacancies at TechAdvance

TechAdvance is a payment application development company with a strategic focus in developing and deploying niche payment companies to serve the needs of large public and private sector organisations in Emerging markets.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

About the Role

• The incumbent is responsible for tech infrastsructure, maintainanace and configuration the company server hardware, operating systems, software and other network infrastructure internally and in conjunction with organizations providing support.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the tech infrastructure, mostly based on AWS and Digital Ocean
• Administer multiple AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC,PostgreSQL, Route 53 etc
• Enable Developers and Operations to build and deploy applications to multiple environments quickly and rapidly with ease.
• Perform end-to-end automation from Continuous Integration (CI) to Continuous Delivery (CD), on AWS and DigitalOcean Cloud Providers
• Develop BASH scripts for various system administrative purposes
• Drive improvements to our build and release scripts, tools, and processes.
• Perform penetration testing, security auditing and best practice implementation across all teams.
• Continuously improve the reliability, stability, and performance of the infrastructure
• Collaborate with the team to define architecture, quality standards, and best practices.
• Automate and streamline our operations and processes for scale.

The Ideal Person
The Ideal Candidate must have:

• Experience building, operating, and scaling systems on AWS, Digital Ocean
• Experience using container technology and orchestration tools such as Docker, ECS or Kubernetes
• Experience with using and configuring CI/CD pipeline toolsets like CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins
• Experience with software development testing techniques, including integrating automated testing into a CI/CD pipeline
• Experience using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Packer, and Terraform
• Proficiency with Linux and scripting languages like BASH, Python
• Solid understanding of the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Previous experience in financial services is preferred but not necessary
• Competent in Version Control with Git, Bitbucket or GitHub
• Experience in working in alignment with common security frameworks/standards e.g. PCI-DSS, ISO27001

Job Position: Senior Laravel Developer

Job Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

About the Role

• The incumbent will be responsible for developing, recording and maintaining cutting-edge web-based applications on portal plus premium service platforms.
• He or she will build innovative, state-of-the-art applications and collaborate with the entire dev team.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
• Building and maintain high-performance APIs and backend systems
• Write clean and maintainable code with good test coverage.
• Implement new features in collaboration with our design team.
• Optimize existing code with special attention to performance and maintainability.
• Lead writing and maintaining the documentation of code and architecture.
• Review other engineer’s code and guide architecture decisions.
• Contribute creatively to the future product roadmap.
• Working with engineers, product managers, designers to turn bring our product vision to life.

The Ideal Person
The Ideal Candidate must have;

• Proficient knowledge of RDBMS (MySQL/MS SQL/PostgreSQL), database designing and query optimisation techniques
• Proficient understanding of RESTful API development and 3rd party integrations
• Good core knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and Bootstrap framework.
• Competency in Version Control with Git, Bitbucket or GitHub
• Solid understanding of the various phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries..
• Be Creative, solution-driven and a customer-focused mindset.
• Experience in micro-services development is a plus
• Experience in developing a Payments or Fintech product(s).

Job Position: Javascript Backend Developer

Job Location: Victoria Island, Lagos + Partly Virtual
Reporting Line: Chief Technology Officer

Job Purpose

• The incumbent will design, build and maintain scalable software systems, develop back-end components and APIs that connect applications with other web services.
• He/She will also support the tech team to bring product visions to life.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and maintaining scalable software systems that power our products and infrastructures.
• Writing well-tested backend infrastructure code.
• Building and maintaining public APIs.
• Working with engineers, product managers, designers to turn bring our product vision to life.
• Work closely with the CTO to design and develop distributed, resilient and high-performing backend services using Node.js
• Code according to industry and team standards, adhering to good practices
• Write maintainable, readable code with extensive test coverage, ideally applying TDD
• Actively engage with team members to discuss backlog items, design issues and best coding practices
• Create technical documentation for internal and external use

The Ideal Person
The Ideal Candidate must have:

• At least 3 years of experience building production applications with Javascript (and Typescript), Express, Node.js, MongoDB.
• Understanding of fundamental database concepts – relational (SQL) database, non-relational (NoSQL) database and ORMs/ODMs.
• Good knowledge of HTTP and RESTful API design and architecture
• Experience with unit and integration testing, and testing frameworks/libraries.
• Experience with, or understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Message Queue technology such as RabbitMQ or Redis, AWS infrastructure services, Docker.
• A strong understanding of backend performance, scalability and security.
• Collaborative – drive cooperation and teamwork in achieving solutions.